Sky Sports commentator David Lloyd blogs from rainy Barbados where he's been greeted by hordes of England football fans.

This week's blog comes direct from Barbados, but it's not exactly been the sunshine break I'd imagined.

I came out here on Sunday with the lady wife to discover the place has been flooded by torrential rain. The golf course has been closed for three days solid, the West Coast Road is impassable and walls are falling down everywhere due to water damage. The people who live here have never seen anything like it.

We're still having a very nice time though. I've been to the gym every day and we've been out on some long walks, so we're enjoying ourselves before I make the half-an-hour trip to Antigua for the Stanford Series next week.

As everybody knows, Barbados is an ultra-expensive place. The restaurants see you coming so I'm breaking Mrs Lloyd in gradually. Last night I took her to Chefette, which is a slightly posher version of McDonalds, and bought her a potato roti and a big shake (that's got to be worth 10 dollars of anybody's money).

Later in the week I might let her have a sweet.

A number of the England players are here ahead of the Stanford Series and if anybody is questioning how seriously they are taking it, think again. I was in the gym at 6.45am on Tuesday morning and I wasn't the first in.

Paul Collingwood and some of the others are working extremely hard to prepare for this and I've spotted several of them in Barbados. They all seem very excited about the Stanford match, not least because of the financial aspect of it.

Peter Moores has said they need to treat it like any other game, but I'm sure the main motivation for the players is the money - it certainly would be for me if I was playing. They're here to win that cash, not to make up the numbers.

They're Chefette-bound at the moment, but if they win in Antigua I'm sure they'll be able to eat at The Cliff in a couple of week's time.

I watched the Belarus v England game in a Barbados bar on Wednesday and it was just like being in the centre of Manchester! It was absolutely full of Brits and the only difference is that you can smoke indoors here. That's not a good thing, it was like having a smokescreen in front of the televisions.

The locals had no idea what was going on in this bar full of drunken English blokes in football shirts cheering and bawling - people were even up on the tables roaring on the substitutions. I've never watched an England game overseas before, so it was certainly a new experience for me.

I think it might have got a bit ugly if they'd lost, but England played really well and the atmosphere was great. The whole room stood up clapping when Fabio Capello was on screen and he's showing why he's the man to take us forward.

I'm a big fan of Mr Capello. I know somebody in the England football camp who says he keeps the players at arms' length, keeps them guessing and rules by fear. It's a bit like Sir Alex Ferguson, who has lots of respect for his players - but they all know there's only one boss. I know everybody does it their own way, but I don't think coaches should be calling players by their nicknames. Capello seems to be doing things right.

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